Jamy Bond is a fiction and nonficition writer. Her work has appeared in The Rumpus, The Sun, The Washington Post, Washingtonian Magazine, Peace Corps Writers and on National Public Radio's The Sound of Writing. She received a Fulbright grant in creative writing and spent three years in Mozambique researching and writing a novel. Most recently, she spent a year in Iraq working for the United States Agency for International Development. Her essay, What Feels Like Destiny, published in The Sun, was nominated for a Pushcart Prize.